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1969 Birmingham Ladywood by-election

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Campaign
Results
References

The Birmingham Ladywood by-election, in Birmingham, on 26 June 1969 was held after Labour Member of Parliament (MP) Victor Yates died on 19 January the same year. Although the seat had been Labour-held since 1945 it was captured by the Liberals in a defeat for Harold Wilson's government.^[1]

Campaign

In Doris Fisher, Dr. Louis Glass and Wallace Lawler the three major parties all picked candidates who were members of the local council.^[2] Lawler, however, had a strong reputation for campaigning in the area, having previously used issues raised by the television drama Cathy Come Home (1966) to highlight poverty in the area,^[3] organised a petition to protest against increases in electricity prices^[4] and arranged a protest demonstration of mainly Birmingham pensioners to travel to London to hand in letters and petitions at 10 Downing Street.^[5] As a consequence, the popular local activist ensured the first Liberal Party MP for a Birmingham constituency in 80 years.^[6]

Colin Jordan ran as a candidate for the far right British Movement and, with Ray Hill as his election agent, their campaign, in which their literature attacked Jews and immigrants and proclaimed loyalty to Nazism, led to some violent scuffles with opponents.^[7] Although Jordan finished a distant fourth the result was frequently cited by those who advocated Nazi orthodoxy on the far right as the British Movement won 282 votes (3% share), despite openly wearing swastika insignia and featuring Adolf Hitler's image on their literature.^[8]

A candidate for the anti-nuclear energy Fellowship Party also contested the by-election.

Results

{{Election box begin | title=Birmingham Ladywood, 1969^[9]}}{{Election box candidate with party link|
|party = Liberal Party (UK)
|candidate = Wallace Lawler
|votes = 5,104 | percentage = 54.35 | change = +30.64
}}{{Election box candidate with party link|
|party = Labour Party (UK)
|candidate = Doris Fisher
|votes = 2,391 | percentage = 25.46 | change = -33.46
}}{{Election box candidate with party link|
|party = Conservative Party (UK)
|candidate = Louis Glass
|votes = 1,580 | percentage = 16.82 | change = -0.54
}}{{Election box candidate with party link|
|party = British Movement
|candidate = Colin Jordan
|votes = 282 | percentage = 3.0 | change = N/A
}}{{Election box candidate with party link|
|party = Fellowship Party
|candidate = James Haigh
|votes = 34 | percentage = 0.36 | change = N/A
}}{{Election box turnout|
|votes = 9,391
|percentage =
|change =
}}{{Election box majority|
|votes = 2,713
|percentage = 28.89
|change =
}}{{Election box gain with party link|
|winner = Liberal Party (UK)
|loser = Labour Party (UK)
|swing =
}}{{Election box end}}

References

1. ^Full result {{webarchive |url=https://web.archive.org/web/20090821022714/http://by-elections.co.uk/69.html#birmingham |date=21 August 2009 }}
2. ^The Times, 27 June 1969
3. ^The Times, 12 January 1967
4. ^The Times, 21 September 1967
5. ^The Times, 9 October 1967
6. ^The Times, 29 September 1972
7. ^Ray Hill and Andy Bell, The Other Face of Terror - Inside Europe’s Neo-Nazi Network, London: Collins, 1988, p. 37
8. ^Hill & Bell, The Other Face of Terror, p. 38
9. ^{{cite web|url=http://by-elections.co.uk/69.html|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120314034618/http://by-elections.co.uk/69.html|title=1969 By Election Results|archive-date=2012-03-14|dead-url=yes|publisher=British Elections Ephemera Archive|access-date=2015-08-26}}

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